American Politics

Armageddon was supposed to happen over the weekend, instead it was just snow. But I'm still looking forward to World War 3.

When nukes?

I'm going to wait until I do my taxes, cause imagine all that pain in the ass paper processing for taxes and we all get mercifully vaporized by nukes. But I really want to book my flight to Thailand though.

This is tough. Why spend the money on flights when the world is going to end soon?

Can't really decide now. Imagine the egg on my face if I don't book the flights and the world doesn't end?

[QUOTE=TheCane;3053628]Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, but probably not what you think. If you've ever been publicly critical of Donald Trump, you've probably been accused of "Trump Derangement Syndrome" by his followers. But what if that phrase actually reveals more about the movement using it than the people it's aimed at? A peer-reviewed study by Franks and Hesami (2021) set out to test this exact claim: that critics of Trump suffer from an irrational hostility that prevents objective thinking, "TDS". Across multiple experiments, the researchers examined whether political bias toward Trump is symmetrical, meaning, whether both supporters and critics distort information in similar ways. Their findings suggest otherwise.

Trump's detractors did not show consistent patterns of reflexive opposition. In fact, they tended to evaluate statements more independently of Trump's involvement. By contrast, Trump supporters were significantly more likely to shift their views depending on whether they believed Trump held a particular position, even when that position contradicted their previous beliefs. In one experiment, participants adjusted their stance on voting procedures depending on whether the outcome favored Trump, revealing a willingness to reinterpret even democratic norms in light of loyalty. Yes, supporters would cheat in elections to get Trump back in office..[/QUOTE][URL]https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/08/28/landmark-study-suggests-most-psychology-studies-dont-yield-reproducible-results[/URL]

[QUOTE=NewtonYork;3053738]Armageddon was supposed to happen over the weekend, instead it was just snow. But I'm still looking forward to World War 3.

When nukes?

I'm going to wait until I do my taxes, cause imagine all that pain in the ass paper processing for taxes and we all get mercifully vaporized by nukes. But I really want to book my flight to Thailand though.

This is tough. Why spend the money on flights when the world is going to end soon?

Can't really decide now. Imagine the egg on my face if I don't book the flights and the world doesn't end?[/QUOTE]You should have slept outside in street on East coast, when you look so much forward to die. Or do like the one who tried to enter Trump castle.

The MAGA Fuhrer, rails against SCOTUS's decision to strike down the tariffs, and frames the decision as something of [B]a "disloyal" act.[/B] he called the three (3) SCOTUS that voted against his argument, as, [I]"...fools and lapdogs for the RINOs and the 'radical' left Democrats...very unpatriotic and disloyal our Constitution."[/I].

[B]Supreme Court strikes down Trumps sweeping tariffs, sparking fierce pushback and vow of new levies,[/B] February 22,2026 [URL]https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-tariffs-trump-0485fcda30a7310501123e4931dba3f9[/URL].

This rambling, bumbling speech (as am sure the SOTU speech will be), addresses the narcissist pedo sympathizer president, who was again claiming [I][b]"loyalty above all"[/b] (as if were Game of Thrones)[/I] despite 2/3 of SCOTUS ruled against his dumbass tariffs according the Constitution.

[QUOTE=TheCane;3053628] "In other words, the evidence does not support the idea that critics are uniquely "deranged". [b]Instead, it points to an asymmetry of loyalty in supporters, where allegiance to the leader can outweigh consistency, evidence, and even previously held convictions. [/b]That should give us pause. Because "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is real, but not in the way it's commonly used."[/QUOTE]Yes, TDS (but not in the way you imagine), once again proving that, the peer-reviewed study by Franks and Hesami (2021), is very much correct in it's analysis, that MAGA Nation in their decision making, behavior and twisted beliefs are [I][b]based on some fake sense of "MAGA loyalty"[/b][/I] and [U]NOT on the Rule of Law, Constitutional Law, or any principal of law, human rights, equality or decency. [/U]

[QUOTE=FFlintstone69;3053732][URL]https://www.zerohedge.com/political/newsom-says-hes-blacks-because-he-cant-read-and-got-low-sat-score[/URL][/QUOTE][URL]https://www.latintimes.com/political-activist-cornel-west-accuses-governor-newsom-reinforcing-core-pillars-white-supremacy-595013[/URL]

Everybody's saying that we're just one or 2 days away from WW3 folks, so just keep your panties on. I'm on a Korean horror movie kick right now, have basically watched them all, and I'm almost ready to book my flight to Thailand. But with the end of the world just around the corner, should I still fly? Hmmmm.

God, there's still so much sexual stuff I want to do. I've never had 3 girls at once. I've yet to experience 2 chicks giving me a blowjob at once. Fucking a hijab babe. But life is misery anyway, might as well finally die.

[QUOTE=TheCane;3053628]A peer-reviewed study by Franks and Hesami (2021) set out to test this exact claim: that critics of Trump suffer from an irrational hostility that prevents objective thinking, "TDS". Across multiple experiments, the researchers examined whether political bias toward Trump is symmetrical, meaning, whether both supporters and critics distort information in similar ways. Their findings suggest otherwise.[/QUOTE]Amazing that the actual study was not linked. Well, here you go. [URL]https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/11/3/113[/URL]

The scientific method is to make a hypothesis, gather data, and see if the hypothesis fits the data. The irony is you already lost me with the title of the study: Seeking Evidence of The MAGA Cult and Trump Derangement Syndrome.

You have just lost me with the title in that your assumption is anyone who votes for Trump is in a cult. As for the evidence of a cult there is this, "It's no longer a political party. It's a cult. " -Former Republican Representative Mickey Edwards on leaving the Republican Party (January 2021). Wow! Well, that sure is scientific.

And how many people were polled in this study? Using Amazon's Mechanical Turk (mTurk) system and limiting enrollment in the study to "Master Workers" in the United States, 394 participants (Mage = 34.95, SD = 13.56) were recruited and paid USD 0. 50 for completing the study.

Oh, well, that is good. And let me guess, these so called scientists even found a way to reject results they didn't like: Accordingly, data collection was halted shortly afterward, with some additional leeway for the possibility of some participants failing attention checks.

Cane, the fact that you would believe such a stupid and poorly denied study shows how badly your TDS is. Thing that kills me is any other grouping like women, blacks, hispanics, or overweight people and you would be screaming from the rooftops about racism, sexism, or fat shaming. But if it is a group of Trump voters, it is okay. That shows that you suffer from TDS.

[QUOTE=TheCane;3053628] Donald Trump has been convicted on 34 felony counts in New York[/QUOTE]It was the same count listed 34 times that was beyond the statue of limitations and was used to influence an election. It was the state of New York and its jurors going way out of their lane to try to choose who should be president for the rest of us and in a case where the head of the FEC was not allowed to testify. The two star witnesses were a felon, who would say anything for personal gain, and a porn star who owes Trump close to a million dollars.

And your take is the 77 millions people who voted for Trump do not have any respect for the law? LOL. No, those 77 million Americans had no respect for the law you TDS Democrats made up and used to try to convict him.

If this whole fiasco was not political, please tell me why Trump is not in jail? If he was a real criminal who could personally do harm to his fellow citizen, he should have been put in jail. Instead, all you dumb Dems do is say he is a convicted felon to try to score political points.

But if you have not noticed, SCOTUS, which is dominated by Republicans, actually did say Trump went too far with his tariffs. In principle, I liked Trump's tariffs, but he employed them like a spoiled Hollywood actress.

He is also pushing the outer edges with his foreign policy. After killing the head of the Jalisco Cartel and seizing Maduro, the latest Trump escapade involves taking out a string of mullahs in Iran. What happened to America first?

I also do not like the switch in gears whenever the news is somewhat negative. After a few bad headlines, DOGE was put to the sideline as was all the Somali fraud in Minnesota. It is like he threw up his hands and said "I am more popular when I spend money so let's go back to that. ".

Despite all that, I do not regret my vote because the alternative was Kamala Harris, and you have TDS to the Nth degree if you think she would have been a better president than Trump, and this is after you fools put into office a guy with dementia and stage 4 prostate cancer.

I don't see many Dems saying you know we should have a fair primary process and see which candidate resonates with voters. You Dems have not had a fair primary process since 2012 IMO. Hell, this last primary season there was no hiding the candidate was picked by Democratic elites. And Kamala's entire campaing slogan may have been, "I am not Trump". Voting for Trump was not just voting for Trump. It was saying that citizens voting actually mattered. Thing about the Epstein files is we see how perverted the elites really are.

I and I have a feeling most of America is in the mood for some boring bureaucrat who gets the trains to run on time and gets us back to a time where performance and not personality wins the day.

Bill Maher showed sympathy for the Trump voter when he / she said voting for Trump was a vote against all the woke insanity that Maher hates so much. How about you guys nominate someone qualified and not crazy? You know like maybe not a guy with dementia or a hooker who sucks down wine by the gallon? Then we will not have to vote for a narcissist. If you have not noticed, Trump's support has been dropping like a stone. That is hardly the behavior of a cult.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3053730]Thanks a ton, for the brilliant Franks and Hesami [I]"clinical" TDS analysis,[/I] on what looks to be a pretty good and comprehensive study! This is much appreciated!

Put simply though, it backs up what many of us here at ISG, refer to as, [I][b]"gullible MAGA suckers".[/b] No study needed...LOL![/I][/QUOTE][URL]https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/02/25/schweizer-how-the-left-is-brainwashing-america-featuring-buck-sexton/[/URL]

Schweizer: How the Left Is Brainwashing America, Featuring Buck Sexton.

[QUOTE=Spidy;3053622]Instead of just posting random videos out of your ass...

What you obviously don't understand, is that the prevailing and antithetical view on the Pakistani Solar Revolution, is that Chinese solar panels has pulled millions of Pakistanis out of electricity poverty and has enhanced the national grid's reliability. https://e360.yale.edu/features/pakistan-solar-boom. No doubt your idiotic MAGA fossil fuel ideology, would want the Pakistanis go back to blackouts, power grid failures and highly expensive power bills[/QUOTE]Let's go back to what I say. I prefer what is going on in Texas. Use alternative energy when it is cost effective but understand its limitations. Do not push alternative energy up people's noses. Respect the fact that fossil fuels and nukes are more reliable than alternative energy and there is a 100 year infrastructure built up to support it.

Understand that places like Texas who have used common sense policy have much cheaper energy prices than the places like California and Europe who said if we did not stop using fossil fuels, the world as we know it would end. I asked you why if alternative energy was cheaper why do places who use more of it have more expensive energy costs, and you said the cost of production and energy prices had nothing to do with each other.

Then like the principleless dumb Dem you are, you go right back to how solar is cheaper and people are paying less for electricity in Pakistan which is totally wrong. Why you are so dumb is you did not even read your own fucking article, Amjad: Over the past year we've seen a 4 to 5 percent decrease in grid demand. As more people defect from the grid, the total costs are shared by a smaller number of consumers. So grid electricity gets more expensive, and more consumers leave.

That is the EXACT same point those "random" videos I posted made.

Yes, the rich people who can buy solar panels are doing great. They have gone away from state controlled electricity and generated power on their own which is cheaper for them. The poor people dependent on the grid are getting fucked. That is the opposite of what you said.

And you keep using the word state in what you want: petrostate, electrostate. The reality is that it was state involvement that made the Pakistani grid suck so badly. And as more people leave the grid, the less money it makes, and the less secure it will be, and the one thing everyone in the videos and your article states is that policies need to change as this problem is getting worse and worse.

But you keep droning on with your envirocult binary behavior: alternative energies good, fossil fuels bad.

And your dumb ass keeps going on about MAGA and fossil fuels. Everyone wants reliable energy, and you cannot get it through your thick skull that fossil fuels are more reliable than alternative energy. And if you were living on the East Coast of the USA being pelted with blizzard after blizzard versus living on a beach in Brazil or an apartment in Thailand, you would fucking get that.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3054064]... than the places like California and ...[/QUOTE]To be fair, we don't have high electricity prices because we are weak, sloppy Democratic hippies, it's because we allowed the monopoly power supplier (PG&E) to deregulate in 1997 and them bailed them out of two subsequent bankruptcies caused by their greed and incompetence, letting them pass their capital costs to the hapless ratepayers.

So rather than taking the "off ramp" to the historically bad decisions on tariffs (that SCOTUS nicely laid out for him), the arrogant con man, grifter, charlatan and pedo sympathizer MAGA president, decides to double-down with more tariffs.

But like I've said in the past, [B]...it's all a grift.[/B] The ONLY THING the MAGA Fuhrer is upset about, is the fact that he may no longer be able to receive a shit-ton of bribes, gifts and tributes from dignitaries, CEOs, billionaires or high profile business leaders, looking to coddle up to him and curry favor for tariff exemptions, carveouts [I]and/or[/I] special dispensations, like he once did.

So while the gullible MAGA suckers, will still stand behind his dumbass tariffs, despite the SCOTUS' ruling, they still don't get it. The fact remains, tariffs have always been, his personal pick-pocketing grift, golden goose and treasure chest.

The "tariff" grift, pick-pocket scheme and pilfering, from the American people, along with tributary bribes from dignitaries sucking-up, kowtowing and bending the knee, has ALWAYS been [I][b]his own sick fantasy of leverage over his perceived enemies and his own personal golden goose.[/b][/I]

The MAGA Menosphere is going ballastic over the Epstein cover up, as brand new alleged evidence of a pedo activity from an 2019 FBI interview is uncovered and said to be connected to the pedo sympathizer MAGA Fuhrer.

[B]Bombshell Epstein File Reveals FBI Interviewed Underage Trump Accuser,[/B] February. 17 2026. [B]Daily Beast:[/B] [I]"The FBI interviewed a Jeffrey Epstein victim who alleged that President Donald Trump sexually abused her when she was a teenager, documents from the Justice Department file dump revealed."[/I] [URL]https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-interviewed-underage-trump-accuser-bombshell-epstein-file-reveals/[/URL].

From outcast Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (aka. Pedo Prince Andy) arrested in the UK, to wannbe kings, as the Brit tabloid headlines read, [I]"Not even princes are above the law"[/I] and neither should corrupt unlawful kings.

Also Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayam resigned from DP World, the former Norwegian Prime Minister, charged with gross corruption, Peter Mandelson fired as ambassador and step-down from the House of Lords, Kathryn Ruemmuler step-down from Goldman Sachs and many other notable accountability around the world.

[U]Meanwhile back in the U.S.[/U]

[I]"Nothing to see here...", LOL! Looks like [b]DOJ "Bimbo"[/b] Bondi and [b]FBI "Crap" Patel,[/b] got some explaining to do!B]P.S.:[/B] Will an attack on Iran, be the key to diverting attention, from the newly alleged pedo MAGA president's accusations?

Your post not only supports the conclusion that Trumpism / MAGA is a cult, but it also supports the conclusion that you are still a card-carrying, certified member in good standing of that cult.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3054062]You have just lost me with the title in that your assumption is anyone who votes for Trump is in a cult. As for the evidence of a cult there is this, "It's no longer a political party. It's a cult. " -Former Republican Representative Mickey Edwards on leaving the Republican Party (January 2021). Wow! Well, that sure is scientific.

Despite all that, I do not regret my vote because the alternative was Kamala Harris, and you have TDS to the Nth degree if you think she would have been a better president than Trump, and this is after you fools put into office a guy with dementia and stage 4 prostate cancer.

I don't see many Dems saying you know we should have a fair primary process and see which candidate resonates with voters. You Dems have not had a fair primary process since 2012 IMO. Hell, this last primary season there was no hiding the candidate was picked by Democratic elites. And Kamala's entire campaing slogan may have been, "I am not Trump". Voting for Trump was not just voting for Trump. It was saying that citizens voting actually mattered. Thing about the Epstein files is we see how perverted the elites really are.

I and I have a feeling most of America is in the mood for some boring bureaucrat who gets the trains to run on time and gets us back to a time where performance and not personality wins the day.

Bill Maher showed sympathy for the Trump voter when he / she said voting for Trump was a vote against all the woke insanity that Maher hates so much. How about you guys nominate someone qualified and not crazy? You know like maybe not a guy with dementia or a hooker who sucks down wine by the gallon? Then we will not have to vote for a narcissist. If you have not noticed, Trump's support has been dropping like a stone. That is hardly the behavior of a cult. [/QUOTE]You proudly parrot the Trumpism / MAGA Cult BS about Biden's mental state then or now, his medical diagnosis, Harris' supposed alcoholic incapacity, blah, blah, blah, contrary to all available evidence and easily observable reality that your Cult has been hanging onto like rats on a rafter to excuse or justify your disastrous and traitorous vote for The Worst President in USA History and despite all of the available evidence and data showing Biden's 1 term was better for America, its economy and National Security than any "best" month of the Trump so-called presidency the first time around and this time around.

Life-long Republican attorney and Trump appointee Robert Hur spent hours interviewing Biden in 2024 and did not find or report one iota of evidence that Joe Biden had dementia or any cognitive incapacity despite tremendous pressure from his side to do so or that he was incapable of making better informed, smarter and more effective Presidential decisions, the purpose of the job, than Trump ever made on any day of his life. And there has been no credible report or evidence presented that supports your BS about Kamala Harris not being more fit to be President than Trump ever was and certainly more than he is now.

That, Sir, is a Cult. And the fact that you can't admit you made a grave mistake in voting for Trump any of the times he ran for president based on the BS you have been fed by that Cult and its Dear Leader proves you are a member of that Cult committed to being willfully ignorant about what plenty of other Americans now realize was an election they sorely wish could be done over.

You're even hanging on to the Trumpism / MAGA Cult BS for why there was not an inter-Party primary battle over the nomination when Harris the only candidate that would have access to the millions and millions of Biden-Harris campaign dollar donations heading into the election. As though it was somehow undemocratic for the opposition to your beloved Trumpism / MAGA Cult candidate not to run a campaign with little or no money against your guy who hadn't been doing anything other than making the worst presidential decisions in USA History, playing golf and campaigning for re-election since 12:01 PM on January 20,2017.

And for all we know, none of the poll respondents in the several credible polling services who are now stating in the majority or a clear plurality that if the election were held again today they would vote for Joe Biden or Kamala Harris are supposedly "former" Trumpism / MAGA Cult members. They could very well simply include the millions of 2020 Biden voters who sat out the 2024 election because they were just fine with their financial situation thanks to the historic Biden-Harris recovery from the colossal mess of Trump's Pandemic and some who had been bamboozled by classic pro-Repub pretend "bothsider / neithersiders" into believing it really doesn't matter all that much who is president or which Party they identify with.

Man, they have really learned the folly of allowing themselves to be bamboozled into believing that catastrophic lie.

"Woke insanity"? LOL. More proof you are in the Cult. Bill Maher is a liar, devoted to helping Repubs win elections by any means necessary and by any razor-thin margin necessary since he provided that function in 2000 for GW Bush then again and again for Trump all three times he ran and squeaked out his two wins.

MAGA Bill Maher has never met a Democrat in any position to legislate or pass a law allowing children to choose a sex-change, never met one who thinks "men can get pregnant", never met one who wants to "defund the police" and on and on and on. But he campaigns for Repubs every week on his show to help the Bushes and the Trumps win elections on that premise as though it had ever happened, which it hasn't.

Only devoted Trumpism / MAGA Cult members believe and cite the lies MAGA Bill Maher tells on behalf of his beloved Repub Party every week.

[QUOTE=Elvis2008;3054062]If you have not noticed, Trump's support has been dropping like a stone. That is hardly the behavior of a cult.[/QUOTE]Trump's core base (his "cult" of which you are a part) has consistently remained around 35% nationally. And in case you haven't noticed, his overall approval rating remains above that. So, his cult-like core remains with him. Of course you don't see it as a cult. That's because you're deep in it, constantly blinded by the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) of which you and the rest of his sycophants sadly suffer. It's among the independents who he's been able to dupe twice that his support has really fallen. Scam an independent once, and that's on a Trumptard. But scam an independent twice, and that's on a stupid independent voter.

[URL]https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/02/23/donald-trump-approval-rating/88176174007/[/URL]

[QUOTE=Spidy;3054127]The MAGA Menosphere is going ballastic over the Epstein cover up, as brand new alleged evidence of a pedo activity from an 2019 FBI interview is uncovered and said to be connected to the pedo sympathizer MAGA Fuhrer.

[B]Bombshell Epstein File Reveals FBI Interviewed Underage Trump Accuser,[/B] February. 17 2026. [B]Daily Beast:[/B] [I]"The FBI interviewed a Jeffrey Epstein victim who alleged that President Donald Trump sexually abused her when she was a teenager, documents from the Justice Department file dump revealed."[/I] [URL]https://www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-interviewed-underage-trump-accuser-bombshell-epstein-file-reveals/[/URL].

From outcast Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (aka. Pedo Prince Andy) arrested in the UK, to wannbe kings, as the Brit tabloid headlines read, [I]"Not even princes are above the law"[/I] and neither should corrupt unlawful kings.

Also Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayam resigned from DP World, the former Norwegian Prime Minister, charged with gross corruption, Peter Mandelson fired as ambassador and step-down from the House of Lords, Kathryn Ruemmuler step-down from Goldman Sachs and many other notable accountability around the world.

[U]Meanwhile back in the U.S.[/U]

[I]"Nothing to see here...", LOL! Looks like [b]DOJ "Bimbo"[/b] Bondi and [b]FBI "Crap" Patel,[/b] got some explaining to do!B]P.S.:[/B] Will an attack on Iran, be the key to diverting attention, from the newly alleged pedo MAGA president's accusations?[/QUOTE]Having had business with pedocriminal Epstein don't mean to be a pedocriminal, but what about 4 women who complain Trump abused them when they were under majority? This would be pedocriminality? Isn't ICE investigating about this? Rather than killing.